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The Foreign Service Journal, December 1999 CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF THE U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE $3.50 / DECEMBER 1999 OREION SF.RN'K R JOURNAL THE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS You CALL THIS A CAREER? Step up and Spin the Foreign Service Wheel of Fortune! I.B. OR NOT I.B.? I LIVING WITH ASIAN VALUES I PINOCHET ON TRIAL The right vehicle ready for delivery to developing countries Ac Bukkehave, we always have over 600 automobiles and trucks as well as 800 motorcycles in stock. All makes and models are richly represented: DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nissan, Yamaha, Isuzu with right-hand or left- hand drive. We also stock generators and outboard motors. Check out our current inventory at www.bukkehave.com. Our services start with advice at the purchasing stage and include efficient transportation solutions. If you are stationed abroad, we can assist you in finding the right vehicle. 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(8 miles) Room & Ride Program: Studio Suite and Intermediate Size Car ® Comfortable within your Per Diem ® Enjoyable ® Affordable Participant in FARA Plus: Housing Program ® Full size, fully equipped kitchens ® Complimentary deluxe breakfast ® Free shuttle Van Dorn Metro, NFATC ® On site fitness center ® Pets accepted 420 North Van Dorn Street Alexandria, VA 22304 Phone: (703) 370-1000 Fax: (703) 751-1467 Reservations 1-800-368-3339 www.alexandnasuites.com CONTENTS December 1999 I Vol. 76, No. 12 COVER FEATURE Focus ON THE FOREIGN SERVICE AS A CAREER PINOCHET, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE U.S. / 48 22 / INTRODUCTION TO Tins ISSUE The arrest of Chiles ex-dictator forces the U.S. to look By Bob Guldin at difficult tradeoffs between morality and realpolitdk. By George Gedda 23 / You CALL THIS A CAREER? Over the years, the Foreign Sendee has become less of a THE BULLDOZER AND THE OLIVE TREE / 52 lifetime commitment, and, coincidentally, less attractive The high-tech global economy may be soaring, to prospective officers. Here’s why. but in diplomacy we can’t forget the centrality of By David T. Jones understanding cultural differences. By David I. Hitchcock 29 / DIFFERENT COUNTRY, SAME PROHLEMS Despite Canada’s veiy different foreign sendee history, COLUMNS its dilemmas sound awfully familiar. PRESIDENT’S VIEWS / 5 Focus By Hector Mackenzie Still a Viable Career? 35/1 WOULD DO IT AI T. AGAIN By Marshall P. Adair Despite hardships and the perennial shortage SPEAKING OUT /17 of resources, the Foreign Service is still a USIA's Terminal Myopia fascinating place to work. By Nick Mele By Phyllis Oakley POSTCARD FROM ARROAD / 84 38 / THE POST-COLD WAR FSO BLUES Christmas in the Clouds For Hispanic and other minority officers, simply Page 22 By Kelly Bembry Midura navigating State’s corporate culture can be a challenge. By Cresencio Arcos DEPARTMENTS LETTERS/7 42 / WHY WE GOT OUT Two junior officers find that “Kiss Up, Kick Down” CLIPPINGS / 14 is the working motto of the Foreign Service. BOOKS / 56 By Anthony leronimo and Nikolai Wenzel INDEX TO ADVERTISERS / 82 SCHOOLS SECTION I.B. OR NOT I.B.? THAT IS THE QUESTION / 60 The International Baccalaureate is a tough program, and for some high-school students it’s just right. By Lucienne Boyd Cover and inside illustrations by Eric Larsen THE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS FOREIGNQERYICE Foreign Service Journal (ISSN 0146-3543), 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. -1_J 0 U II N A I. k_>/ 20037-2990 is published monthly by the American Foreign Service Association, a private, Editor ^ § Editorial Board non-profit organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers BOB GULDIN EDWARD MARKS, ANNIVERSARY and does not necessarily represent the views of the Journal, the Editorial Board or Managing Editor CHAIRMAN KATHLEEN CURRIE THE FOREIGN SERVICE AFSA. Writer queries are invited. Journal subscription: AFSA Members - $9.50 included ELIZABETH SPIRO CLARK Associate Editor OF THE UNITED STATES in annual dues; others - $40. For foreign surface mail, add $18 per year; foreign airmail, STEVEN ALAN HONLEY MITCHELL A. COHN $36 per year. Periodical postage paid at Manchester, N.H., and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send Ad & Circulation Manager THEODORE CRAIG ED MILTENBERGER address changes to Foreign Service Journal, 2101 E Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990. Indexed by MAUREEN S. DUGAN AFSA NEWS Editor Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS). The Journal is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, photos or AURELIUS FERNANDEZ WESLEY ANN GODARD illustrations. Advertising inquiries are invited. The appearance of advertisements herein does not imply the CAROL A. GIACOMO Art Director endorsement of the services or goods offered. FAX: (202) 338-8244 or (202) 338-6820. E-MAIL: [email protected]. CARYN J. SUKO CAROLINE MEIRS WEB: www.afsa.org. TELEPHONE: (202) 338-4045. © American Foreign Service Association, 1999. Printed Editorial Intern WAYNE PAUL MOLSTAD LUCIENNE BOYD in the U.S.A. Send address changes to AFSA Membership, 2101 E Street N.W, Washington, D.C. 20037- ARNOLD SCHIFFERDECKER Advertising Intern 2990. SlLKE GRUNDLER WILLIAM WANLUND DECEMBER 1999/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 3 Do some site seeing... www.diplosales.com Factory-wholesale prices on America's finest vehicles, delivered anywhere in the world. Phone: 516-496-1806 ♦ Fax: 516-667-3701 ♦ E-mail: [email protected] PRESIDENT’S VIEWS Still a Viable Career? BY MARSHALL P. ADAIR This issue of the FSJ poses an sendee, and particularly of die Foreign important question: Is the Foreign The Foreign Sendee, are critical, but tiiey too are Service still viable as a career? I believe eroding. International affairs is a less the answer to that question is strongly Service will exclusive preserve as businessmen, affirmative. But there is another equal¬ continue to be journalists and academics often spend ly important question: Will it continue more time in a particular country or to be viable in the future? The answer an attractive region than do diplomats. In the to that is, only if we make it so. That career only if we United States the clamor against gov¬ will not be easy. ernment “elites” is as loud as ever, not Today, Foreign Sendee personnel make it so. only from Congress, but from within have the opportunity to live all over the administration as well. The ratio of tire world, experiencing directly cul¬ political to career ambassadors clings tures that most Americans are only precariously to 30:70, but political vaguely aware of. The Foreign Service appointments to key State offers the opportunity to serve others strengdiens the service to a burden Department positions are growing and the nation hi an enonnous variety that weakens it. Resources allocated to steadily. of ways: from the personal — impact¬ foreign affairs have decreased — by On top of all tins, die danger from ing individual lives through consular nearly 50 percent since 1985 — and terrorism is now worldwide, not limit¬ services, to the general — construct¬ benefits and support for personnel and ed to specific countries. It is directed ing foreign policies to protect the their families overseas have decreased not just at Foreign Service personnel, security of the nation. as well. At die same time, life at hard¬ but at their families as well. At home, Of course, the Foreign Sendee has ship posts, which used to be less expen¬ successive administrations and always included difficulties: the hard¬ sive dian in die U.S., is now often more Congresses have failed to allocate suf¬ ship of living in less developed or hos¬ expensive. ficient resources to protect against that tile areas, die danger of unfamiliar dis¬ Social and economic changes have direat, and show litde willingness to ease, the constant uprooting and re¬ made life for single-income families address it more seriously now. establishing of families witiiout die increasingly difficult — but it is not The Foreign Service probably will support of long-time friends, and die correspondingly easier for Foreign continue to be an attractive career, but struggle to provide adequate education Service spouses to find jobs overseas, it may be attractive to a less competi¬ for children, hi some respects these much less to maintain separate careers. tive population. In tire years to come, difficulties have contributed to die def¬ Meanwhile, private sector career alter¬ this nation needs the strongest possible inition of a unique service, adding to its natives to the Foreign Service are professional diplomatic service. That challenge and its rewards. growing. McKinsey and Co.’s “War for requires die highest caliber people the Over die last several decades, how¬ Talent” report warns diat competition country has to offer. Widiout a signifi¬ ever, a number of trends have devel¬ for intellectually gifted, internationally cant sustained effort to counter the oped which threaten to transform oriented people will continue to negative trends in resources, attention these difficulties from a challenge tiiat increase over die next 20 years. Private and attitudes that we now face, it sector salaries, at both entry and senior seems unlikely that we will continue to Marshall R Adair is the president of levels, dwarf those offered by die State attract that high caliber of people for the American Foreign Service Department.
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